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Letters Patent No. 81,790, dated September 1, 1868.

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TO `ALL WHOM IT MAY GONGERN:

Be itknown that we, GEORGE KING and LYNDIIURSYT T. SHORE, of FrederickCity, in the county of Frederick, and State of Maryland, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Spouts for Seed-Drills;and wefdo hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a. partof'thisspecification'fin which-v v Figure 1 represents an end view ofour seeder, and- Fig-,ure` 2isa side view of the same.

The nakture'ofbur invention consists in the employment of' certaindevices, combined and arranged substantiall'yfinnthe manner hereinafterset forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invention, wewill now describe its construction and operation. Y p

` vIn the accompanying drawings, A represents the seed-box, and B thewheels. C is the axle, and D the `vframe, upon the side-piecesof whichthe seed-box is designed torest. o designates a series of short tubes,

having iangesat their upper ends, which are securely fastened to thebottom of seed-box A. d represents a succession of tubes, intended toconvey the grain from e into the lower tubes, F and F', to which theshovels 'i are attached. The upper tube, d, in each series is madesuciently large to fit loosely over thelower end of tuberc, towhichitis'pivoted, so as to play with. a forward and backward motion. Thesecond tube d is made to lembracethe lower end of the one above it, andis pivoted in a similar manner. Any number of tubes may 'beaiddedalwa`ys observing the same method-of construction. h represents aseries of metal braces, two of which are pivotedA to projectionspon Fand F', and R and M. The outer ends of braces I are penetrated by therodf, on which they can play with a vertical motion. 'c represents anumber of pendants, consisting of metal plates, fastened attop tothefront'ot frame D, and bent over at bottom, so as to form an eye,through which ro'dfs made tu pass. m represents a metal rod, bent atright angles near each end, and then bent outwards, to enter theopposite-side-pieces of frameA. To this rod, cords are fastened, one ofwhich will connect the rodf with each bf the tubes, F and R M.V When itis desired to lift said tubes entirely out of groundkthe rod m will bepushed back against the seed-box, and will be held there by spring s.When it is dcs'iredto keep .the tubos F and F., together with tubes Rand M, in a given position, a. pin, j, will be thrust over thc top ofthebraces attached to each of' the lower tubes, and through one of theholes made in the projections attached to each of said tubes. `By thisarrangementthe plows 'it' will be in condition to perform their otce.

It will-.be observed that the tubes conveying the grain to F and F',being pivoted in the manner above described, will have all the desiredflexibility of leather or rubber, and, at the same time, possess greaterstrength and durability.

The above-.described tubes Lnay be modified in two ways: The firstmodiication'is exhibited by thetubes,

i which convey the gra-in into the tube R, in which the second tube, u,is hinged to c at top, and sheathedvin tube au, and w sheathed in tubec, which is hinged to tube R. In the second modification, marked M, thetube IZ' will be hinged at top to e, and sheathed in tube 72, which ishinged to M.

We are aware that making seed-spouts in scctions, allowing one sectionto enter the other, and suspending them by a flexible material, is notnew. We do not claim, therefore, this featurerbut v Whtwedo claim, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, isv Hng'ing the lo'werfsection ofthe seed-spoutsP V to the tubes or spoutsR M, as and for the purposespecified. v

In ytestimony'that we claim the foregoing as our own, we aiiix oursignatures in presence of two witnesses.

vGEORGE KING, LYNDHURST T. SHOPE. Witnesses W. R. JouNsoN, DANIELHAnrsocK.

